Friday, December 30, 2011

Five Open Source Technologies for 2012

IDG News Service (12/28/11) Joab Jackson

Five open source projects could become the basis for new businesses and industries in 2012.  Nginx, a Web server program, could become popular due to its ability to easily handle high-volume traffic.  Nginx already is used on highly trafficked Web sites, and the next release, due in 2012, will be more pliable for shared hosting environments.  The OpenStack cloud computing platform has gained support from several technology firms due to its scalability.  "We're not talking about [using OpenStack to run a] cloud of 100 servers or even 1,000 servers, but tens of thousands of servers," says OpenStack Project Policy Board's Jonathan Bryce.  Stig was designed for the unique workloads of social networking sites, according to its developers.  The data store's architecture allows for inferential searching, enabling users and applications to look for connections between disparate pieces of information.  Linux Mint was designed specifically for users who want a desktop operating system and do not want to learn more about how Linux works.  The Linux Mint project is now the fourth most popular desktop operating system in the world.  GlusterFS is one of the fastest growing storage software systems on the market, as downloads have increased by 300 percent in the last year.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223056/Five_open_source_technologies_for_2012

Monday, December 26, 2011

Apple : l'iPhone perd des parts de marché en France et en Allemagne

Face à la crise économique qui sévit dans la zone euro, Apple voit ses parts de marché baisser en France et en Allemagne d'après les estimations du cabinet Kantar Worldpanel.

L'iPhone tributaire de la conjoncture économique


Il faut croire que la conjoncture économique prend finalement le pas sur l'industrie de la téléphonie et qu'Apple ne soit pas épargné. L'étude du cabinet Kantar Worldpanel, relayée par Reuters, estime que les ventes d'iPhone ont chuté dans certains pays, notamment ceux de la zone euro. Ainsi en un an, les ventes d'iPhone auraient glissé, notamment en France avec des parts de marché de 20 % contre 29 % l'an dernier à la même époque, mais aussi en Allemagne (22 % contre 27 % il y a un an).
En Italie et en Espagne, ces baisses seraient également du même ordre.

A l'inverse, les parts de marché augmentent au Royaume Uni, passant de 21 % à 31 %, tout comme aux Etats-Unis où la progression est plus importante (plus 11 points, passant de 25 % à 36 % de parts de marché).

La concurrence féroce de Samsung fait mal à Apple


Pour expliquer les difficultés de l'iPhone dans l'Europe de l'euro, la crise économique n'est pas le seul argument avancé par Kantar Worldpanel. La concurrence féroce d'autres constructeurs de smartphones, notamment Samsung avec ses nombreux appareils fonctionnant sous Andoid, explique ce déclin en un an. Samsung a lancé 2011 le Galaxy S II, véritable concurrent de l'iPhone 4 voire même du 4S, mais s'appuie également sur une large gamme de smartphones vendus à prix bon marché.
Kantar Worldpanel estime qu'un smartphone sur deux écoulé en France est un Samsung. En Allemagne, Android représenterait 61 % des parts de marchés, où le Galaxy S II est en large tête.

Toutefois, Apple n'a pas de quoi s'alarmer, puisque les ventes mondiales de son iPhone 4S devraient encore atteindre des sommets au niveau mondial.

Monday, December 19, 2011

10 reasons why this is a great time to be a developer

If your development work has become routine and uninspiring, take heart. Recent innovations and emerging technologies are creating opportunities to make software do things it could never do before. Jody@techrepublic

After a long stretch of stagnation, the developer field is starting to open up -- in a number of interesting, groundbreaking ways. Read more

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

[IMPORTANT] [projet reste à faire] Les sources de vos projet

Remarque : Le lien vers les sources doit être dans l'une des forges suivantes:
Il n'y a pas de note dans le cas ou je ne trouve pas les logiciels dans une des forges. Il faut aussi pour chaque projet et à coté des sources au moins 3 fichiers: 
  1. README qui explique un peu ce que l'on trouve,  
  2. INSTALL qui explique comment faire marcher votre logiciel 
  3. et enfin TODO qui explique ce qui n'est pas encore fait!
Je regarderais aussi les commit dans chaque projet: chaque candidat doit avoir au moins fait un commit!!
Voila Je vais attendre jusqu'à Dimanche soir pour vérifier les forges.


Vous pouvez si vous le souhaité , créer une page wiki personnelle (libre.cofares.net). Dans votre page personnelle vous pourrez ecrire tout ce que vous souhaitez publier concernant votre propre participation au projet.
Après le login essayez http://libre.cofares.net/tiki-my_tiki.php , puis dans preference http://libre.cofares.net/tiki-user_preferences.php mettez votre pays et la confidentialite = public et finalement créer votre page personnelle User_.... 
Voila c'est la dernière ligne droite...


Sunday, December 11, 2011

Open source web conferencing | The Open Source Advocate

Link: http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/08/open-source-web-conferencing.html (via shareaholic.com)

Have you ever wanted to attend a webinar but quickly discovered that the web-conference service doesn't even support your operating system? This has happened to me several times and it irks me greatly! I always make sure to tell the company that they should switch their web-conferencing service to one that supports multiple platforms including Linux.

It is somewhat hypocritical when an open source company offers a webinar about their open source product, but they don't allow customers with open source operating systems like Linux to attend. I ran into this ridiculous issue when trying to attend a Zimbra webinar. I told them that it was wrong for them to have such great multi-platform support in their product and at the same time only allow Windows users to participate in their webinars. We'll see if they take that advice to heart.

A conference GNU/Linux Server

Link: http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Conference-Server-HOWTO.html (via shareaholic.com)

Dear reader, you may be involved in organising conferences or just simple meeting. You know that it is sometime difficult for some participants to attend such meetings, travel costs, hotel bookings, important deadlines to meet, while they could be listening to the proceeding from work and interact from time to time with the speakers. I wanted to leverage my knowledge of Linux to provide an all in one solution on one machine to provide, Internet access to participants and allow everybody with an Internet connection to participate in the meeting.

This HOWTO is published on The Linux Documentation Project this is where you will find the latest version of this document.

Research Survey: A questionnaire on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Arab World

Research Survey: A questionnaire on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Arab World
Knowledge, usage, and needs

Ma3bar is kindly inviting you to fill out the questionnaire that is available via http://www.fossarab.net/

This questionnaire aims at gauging your views about the current status of Free & Open Source Software in the Arab region with the view of spreading awareness and promoting its adoption.

This questionnaire is part of a research conducted by a regional research team affiliated with the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the School of Business of the American University in Cairo, in collaboration with Ma3bar, the Arab Support Center for Free & Open Source Software at the University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon.

Your opinion is vital for the success of this research and will be treated in the strictest confidence within the ethical code of practice for field research at the American University in Cairo; thus the information gathered will solely be used to compile statistics. No data about you as an individual will be disclosed in any published results.

________________________________

Enquête Recherche: Un Questionnaire sur le Logiciel Libre et Open Source (FOSS) dans le monde arabe
Connaissance, utilisation et besoins

Ma3bar vous invite à bien vouloir remplir le questionnaire qui est disponible sur http://www.fossarab.net/?q=fr

Ce questionnaire vise à évaluer votre point de vue sur l'état actuel des logiciels libres dans la région arabe en vue de propager la sensibilisation et la promotion de son adoption.

Ce questionnaire fait partie d'une recherche menée par l'équipe de recherche régionale affiliée au centre "Access to Knowledge for Development" (A2K4D) à l'École de Gestion de l'université américaine du Caire, en collaboration avec Ma3bar, le centre de soutien arabe des logiciels libres et open source à l'Université de Balamand, El-Koura, Liban.

Votre avis est essentiel pour la réussite de cette recherche et sera traitée dans la plus stricte confidentialité dans le code éthique des chercheurs à l'université américaine au Caire. Toutes informations recueillies seront exclusivement utilisées pour compiler des statistiques. Aucune des données personnelles ne sera divulgué dans les résultats publiés.

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بحث إستطلاعي: استمارة البرمجيات الحرّة ومفتوحة المصدر في العالم العربي
المعرفة، الاستخدام، والاحتياجات

يدعوكم معبر لملء الإستمارة المتوفّرة على الموقع: http://www.fossarab.net/?q=ar

تهدف هذه الاستمارة الى تبيان رأيكم حول الوضع الراهن للبرمجيات الحُرّة ومفتوحة المصدر في الوطن العربي بهدف نشر الوعي وتشجيع اعتمادها.

هذه الإستمارة هي جزء من البحث الذي يقوم به فريق الأبحاث الإقليمي التابع لمركز "المعرفة من أجل التنمية" في كلية إدارة الأعمال في الجامعة الأميركية في القاهرة، بالتعاون مع "مَعْبَر"، المركز العربي لدعم البرمجيّات الحُرّة ومفتوحة المصدر في جامعة البلمند، الكورة، لبنان.

ان وجهات نظركم مهمة جداً لنجاح هذا البحث العلمي وسوف يتم معالجتها في سرية تامة بحسب القوانين الأخلاقية والسلوكية المعتمدة للبحث الميداني في الجامعة الأميركية في القاهرة. لذا سوف تستعمل البيانات المجمَّعة لغايات احصائية فقط دون ذكر أسماء المشتركين في أي حال من الأحوال.


Friday, December 9, 2011

Usenix: Dartmouth Updating Diff, Grep Unix Tools

IDG News Service (12/08/11) Joab Jackson

Dartmouth University researchers are updating the grep and diff Unix command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions to handle more complex types of data.  The updates are needed because "we now tend to have more model-based configuration languages that have meaningful constructs spanning more than one line," says Dartmouth graduate student Gabriel Weaver.  The researchers say the updated tools will enable administrators to extract meaningful data from configuration files, log files, and other sources of operational data.  The output from either of these programs can be linked to other utilities, enabling them to be incorporated into scripts that automate routine system administration tasks.  The new programs, called Context-Free Grep and Hierarchical Diff, will provide the ability to parse blocks of data rather than single lines.  For each new type of data structure, a vendor would provide a pattern library identifying the basic structure of the data, which the software would then use to "extract the constructs of interest from the document," Weaver says.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222509/Usenix_Dartmouth_updating_diff_grep_Unix_tools

Monday, November 28, 2011

AUST announces the GNU/Linux Training Workshop 2012


LPI-101 – January 9 – 19, 2012
LPI-102 – February 6 – 16, 2012
In partnership with LPI, the Linux Professional Institute, and Ma3bar, the Arab Support Center for Free & Open Source Center, and in collaboration with the IEEE Computer Society – Lebanon Chapter, The Computer Science Department at the American University of Science and Technology – AUST announces a GNU/Linux Training Workshop on the campus of AUST, Ashrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon. This workshop covers two courses, LPI-101 and LPI-102, which lead to the LPIC-1 renown certification.

Purpose

As part of Ma3bar's mission to promote Free Software in Arab societies, this Training workshop is a third of a series of GNU/Linux training workshops that aim to increase the level of competence in Free Software environments.

LPIC-1 – Junior Level Linux Professional

LPIC-1 is the first IT certification program to be professionally accredited by National Commission For Certifying Agencies (NCCA). It requires passing both exams of LPI-101 and LPI-102. To pass this level, someone should be able to:
  • Work at the GNU/Linux command line
  • Perform easy maintenance tasks: help out users, add users to a larger system, backup & restore, shutdown & reboot
  • Install and configure a workstation (including X) and connect it to a LAN, or a stand-alone PC to the Internet.

LPI-101 – Jan. 9 – 19, 2012 (8 sessions, 6:00–9:00 PM)

This course covers basic skills for the GNU/Linux professional that are common to major distributions of GNU/Linux.
Topics include:


  • System Architecture
    • Determine and configure hardware settings
    • Boot the system
    • Change run-levels and shutdown or reboot system
  • GNU/Linux Installation and Package Management
    • Design hard disk layout
    • Install a boot manager
    • Manage shared libraries
    • Use Debian package management
    • Use RPM and YUM package management
  • GNU and Unix Commands
    • Work on the command line
    • Process text streams using filters
    • Perform basic file management
    • Use streams, pipes and redirects
    • Create, monitor and kill processes
    • Modify process execution priorities
    • Search text files using regular expressions
    • Perform basic file editing operations using vi
  • Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
    • Create partitions and filesystems
    • Maintain the integrity of filesystems
    • Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
    • Manage disk quotas
    • Manage file permissions and ownership
    • Create and change hard and symbolic links
    • Find system files and place files in the correct location

LPI-102 – Feb. 6-16, 2012 (8 sessions, 6:00–9:00 PM)

This course covers basic & more advanced skills for the GNU/Linux professional that are common to major distributions of GNU/Linux.
Topics include:


  • Shells, Scripting and Data Management
    • Customize and use the shell environment
    • Customize or write simple scripts
    • SQL data management
  • User Interfaces and Desktops
    • Install and configure X11
    • Setup a display manager
    • Accessibility
  • Administrative Tasks
    • Manage user and group accounts and related system files
    • Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
    • Localization and internationalization
  • Essential System Services>
    • Maintain system time
    • System logging
    • Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics
    • Manage printers and printing
  • Networking Fundamentals
    • Fundamentals of internet protocols
    • Basic network configuration
    • Basic network troubleshooting
    • Configure client side DNS
  • Security
    • Perform security administration tasks
    • Setup host security
    • Securing data with encryption


LPIC-1 certification exams

LPIC-1 certification requires passing both exams 101 and 102. These two exams can be taken anytime at any LPI certified exam center. It is recommended that trainees consider taking the exams at least two weeks after the workshop in order to have adequate time to prepare, practice and review. More information about the exams will be provided during the workshop.

Who should attend

  • Beginner users in GNU/Linux environments who want to gain further technical skills
  • Users of GNU/Linux who want to start building basic skills in system administration and configuration
  • Computer professionals, fresh graduates, or students in graduate schools who want to become certified GNU/Linux professionals

What you get

  • Student material and study aid kit, including Approved Training Material – ATM, presentations, labs, electronic material, practice exams, and LPI portal access
  • Certificate of attendance
  • 90% certification success rate

Workshop tutor

The workshop will be delivered by a team of experienced academicians and LPI-certified professionals:
  • Dr. Aziz Barbar, Chairperson, Department of Computer Science, AUST – Beirut
  • Mr. Elie Nasr, Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, AUST – Beirut
  • Dr. Walid Karam, Coordinator, Ma3bar, the Arab Support Center for Free & Open Source Software, Universiry of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon

Registration

Registration is open until January 2, 2012. Early bird registration fees apply on or before December 16, 2011. Registration is confirmed only upon filling the on-line application form at http://ma3bar.org/gnulinux/ and receiving the full payment.

Travel & Accommodation

    For participants coming from neighboring Arab countries, assistance and special rates on travel and accommodation will be arranged. Please contact gnulinux@ma3bar.org for further details.

Cost Matrix

Early bird rate
Full rate
LPI-101 (IEEE student member rate) * §
USD 400
USD 450
LPI-102 (IEEE student member rate) * §
USD 400
USD 450
LPI-101 (student rate) §
USD 450
USD 500
LPI-102 (student** rate) §
USD 450
USD 500
LPI-101 (professional rate)
USD 900
USD 1,000
LPI-102 ( professional rate)
USD 900
USD 1,000
LPI-101 (group professional rate) 
USD 800
USD 900
LPI-102 (group professional rate)
USD 800
USD 900

* a valid IEEE student membership card for 2012 is required.

§ an eligible student must have a valid student ID from an accredited Institution of higher education, and should be less than 25 years of age.

an eligible group consists of two or more persons delegated by an organization


Contact us

For more information, please contact
Dr. Aziz Barbar
Chair, IEEE Computer Chapter, Lebanon
Chairperson, Department of Computer Science
AUST - American University of Science & Technology
Alfred Naccash Avenue – Ashrafieh
P.O. Box: 16-6452 Beirut 1100-2130, Lebanon
Tel : +961 (0)1 218 716, Ext. 311
Fax: +961 (0)1 339 302
email: gnulinux@ma3bar.org
web: http://ma3bar.org/gnulinux/

In collaboration with


Google prépare la prise en charge native des périphériques pour Chrome

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Search algorithme...


Google's Search Algorithm Challenged
IDG News Service (11/19/11) Philip Willan

Padua University professor Massimo Marchiori is leading the development of Volunia, a new search engine that could challenge Google's search algorithm and lead to radically different search engines in the future. "It's not just Google plus 10 percent. It's a different perspective," says Marchiori, who contributed to the development of Google's search algorithm. "It's a new radical view of what a search engine of the future could be." Volunia's Web site allows visitors to sign up for a chance to test the beta version of the search engine, which will be launched in 12 languages by the end of the year. "If I didn't think it was something big, capable of competing with the giants of online search, I would never have got involved," Marchiori says. The project is headquartered in Padua, with funding being supplied by Sardinian entrepreneur Mariano Pireddu. "The difference of our search engine is what will enable us to emerge," Marchiori says. Pireddu says the Volunia researchers are not attempting to build a better search engine than Google's, but rather they are trying to create a different kind of search engine that can work alongside Google's.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Linux en enterprise (fr)

Constats

Les offreurs en position de force Les attentes et les exigences des clients n'influencent que peu les produits et les services disponibles; le marché de l'informatique est aujourd'hui piloté par l'offre plutôt que par la demande, qui n'est pas (encore) en position de force. (Est-ce lié à la jeunesse du marché? À l'excès d'oligopoles? À la pénurie de compétences par rapport à la demande?)

Acheter une licence n'offre aucune garantie L'acquisition d'un logiciel n'offre aucune garantie quant à sa pérennité pas plus qu'elle ne réduit l'éventuel coût de ses défauts: manques à gagner, dommages, coûts induits...

Les données otages des éditeurs d'outils Stocker des données selon un format propriétaire ou les traiter avec un programme au source non analysable revient à serrer ses informations dans un coffre dont un tiers détient la seule clé.

Un grand dessein : le partage bénéficie aux utilisateurs de logiciel La nature immatérielle du logiciel (copier ne coûte guère) rend possible de partager sans surcoût extensions et corrections, alors qu'elles améliorent la qualité du logiciel. Certains acteurs de l'open source limitent toutefois ce partage aux éléments ne profitant pas à leurs concurrents.

Aspects organisationnels et financiers

La transparence réduit les coûts La transparence requise par l'open source interdit à tout prestataire de prendre l'utilisateur en otage. Elle réduit le coût d'intégration (connexion du logiciel à l'existant), d'exploitation (résolution des inévitables embarras) ainsi que celui du ticket de sortie.

Mieux pourvoir les projets En supprimant les licences payantes l'open source ménage du budget pour la réalisation du projet, principal facteur de risque.

Atténuer le risque de l'exclusivité des compétences L'open source facilite la gestion des compétences car une entreprise utilisatrice peut librement décider de son niveau d'indépendance vis-à-vis des prestataires (développement, intégration, formation, assistance technique...).

L'accès aux données affranchit de l'acquisition de licences Tout partenaire, client ou fournisseur (par exemple le citoyen) doit pouvoir accéder aux informations sans acquitter de licence.

Mutualisation : coûts moindres et garantie qualitative Le coût acquitté par chacun pour la réalisation d'une solution immatérielle (du logiciel) utile à tous est inversement proportionnel au nombre de contributeurs au projet de la réalisation correspondante. Les profiteurs, qui se contentent de recueillir le fruit du travail des autres, peuvent être maintenus à l'écart en réservant temporairement aux seuls contributeurs certaines parties des réalisations.

Réduire le coût des matériels Les évolutions des codes open source n'exigent pas sans cesse davantage de puissance, donc n'accélèrent pas l'obsolescence des matériels.

Adéquation de l'open source

Le respect de normes assure l'interopérabilité maximale Les grandes architectures propriétaires disparaissent car les décideurs, afin de ne pas devenir des otages, évitent les outil peu conformes aux normes donc interagissant peu et mal avec d'autres. Les logiciels open source respectent les normes.

Il est souvent souhaitable voire nécessaire de maîtriser les outils Les logiciels sont imparfaits et il faut sans cesse les améliorer (maintenance corrective et adaptative), mieux vaut maîtriser ceux qui sont nécessaires au fonctionnement de l'entreprise afin de gérer l'exploitation en mode dégradé voire de les adapter. Motiver les informaticiens interdit d'employer des outils opaques (qui les transforment en presseurs de boutons). C'est souvent moins l'outil qui fait la différence que la capacité de son utilisateur à l'employer au mieux.

Améliorer la relation avec les utilisateurs créatifs Un nombre croissant d'utilisateurs développent (macros, VBA, Access ...) sans pour autant oublier leurs connaissances 'métier'. La direction chargée du système d'information peut choisir de combattre ces développements ou bien d'impliquer ces utilisateurs. Les outils open source améliorent le dialogue et l'industrialisation car établissent un périmètre technique adéquat commun.

Capitaliser sur la pratique Les constats et solutions issus du terrain doivent bénéficier au logiciel exploité (via sa version d'intégration), grâce à un processus léger mais rigoureux auquel l'open source se prête bien.

L'automatisation est un principe sain L'automatisation, bien assurée par Unix donc par l'open source, est source d'économie et de fiabilité.

Aspects techniques

L'innovation reconnue utile par le marché est issue de l'Open Source Les techniques employées par les projets contemporains sont issues de l'open source (Internet, Web...).

L'open source repose sur des techniques classiques Merise, la VABF... tout comme les «méthodes agiles» sont applicables. Les spécialistes concernés maîtrisent les techniques (famille Unix) mises en œuvre par les logiciels open source. De surcroît les concepts techniques des solutions open source évoluent en fonction de nécessités pratiques et non commerciales, donc ne connaissent pas de réforme arbitraire permettant de contraindre les utilisateurs à disposer de la plus récente version.

L'open source procède de la démarche scientifique ... et non du bricolage, car la publication est la condition de la nécessaire revue par les pairs. Un technicien devant publier ses travaux, donc les soumettre à la revue de ses pairs afin de les y associer, travaille mieux car peaufine avant de s'exposer ainsi.

Modernité du socle Unix La qualité technique de Linux et des systèmes BSD, reconnue par le marché, montre que l'adoption de la souche technique Unix découle d'une sélection menée par des experts et favorise les améliorations.

Stratégie

Réduire la dépendance Est-il préférable que son informatique dépende d'un unique fournisseur ou bien d'un ensemble de concurrents ?

Rééquilibrer l'économie du logiciel Est-il préférable : de louer, par exemple en payant des licences à une entreprise non européenne établissant librement son tarif (augmentations prévues ou non...) ? d'utiliser gratuitement un logiciel dont le coût de développement a été mutualisé, améliorable au moyen de prestations payées à des acteurs européens mis en concurrence ?

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Google's Lab of Wildest Dreams

Google's Lab of Wildest Dreams
New York Times (11/14/11) Claire Cain Miller
               ; Nick Bilton

Google X is a top-secret lab where Google researchers are focusing on 100 blue-sky concepts, including reportedly the U.S. manufacture of driverless cars, space elevators that collect information or transport things into space, and fleets of robots that could aid Google with information gathering.  Other concepts the lab is concentrating on include methods for linking everyday objects to the Web in an Internet of things.  Google X reflects Google's aim to be a hub of groundbreaking research and development, and Google's Jill Hazelbaker says speculative project investment is a key component of Google's makeup.  "While the possibilities are incredibly exciting, please do keep in mind that the sums involved are very small by comparison to the investments we make in our core businesses," she says.  Google X is staffed by roboticists and electrical engineers hired from Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University, Nokia Labs, Stanford University, New York University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, who invented the world's first driverless car, is one of the lab's research leaders, as is fellow Stanford professor Andrew Ng, who specializes in teaching robots and machines to function like people via the application of neuroscience to artificial intelligence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/at-google-x-a-top-secret-lab-dreaming-up-the-future.html

Chrombooks et Chrome OS, un échec à la Google TV ?

http://www.zdnet.fr/services/mobile/actualites/chrombooks-et-chrome-os-un-echec-a-la-google-tv-39765580.htm#xtor=EPR-100

Lenovo et HTC sortiront aussi des tablettes Android quadri cœurs Tegra 3

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STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET « Boing Boing

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Presse-Citron- 50 0des smartphones Android ne devraient pas voir Ice Cream Sandwich !

Check out this post: http://www.presse-citron.net/50-des-smartphones-android-ne-devraient-pas-voir-ice-cream-sandwich

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There are many plugins for gEdit that add new functions. The Tag List is one I use frequently to look up character and tag codes.The spelling checker is especially valuable. I'm hardly perfect in either my spelling or typing. Read more >>
The Linux Command Line Shell Roundup
There are several different shells. The original shell is sh, or the Bourne Shell. It was developed by Stephen Bourne at Bell Laboratories. It's still in use today. Read more >>
Managing BURG with BURG-Manager
BURG-Manager is a graphical interface for managing BURG, the new bootloader that is based on GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader. Read more >>
Oracle Debuts Solaris 11
Oracle officially release the Solaris 11 Unix operating system, the first major Solaris release under Oracle's ownership and first major update to Solaris since Solaris 10 back in 2004. Read more >>
Adobe Kills Off Flash for Mobile Browsers
Adobe is stopping development of Flash Player for browsers on the mobile platform. From now, the company will be focusing its efforts on HTML5 and mobile apps. Read more >>
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LibreOffice 3.4.4 Is Now Available for Download
LibreOffice 3.4.4 is here to fix some of the most-important bugs found by users in the previous releases. Fixes include bugs found in the Calc, Impress, Writer, SDK, and the core libraries of LibreOffice. Read more >>

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Free As In Freedom: But Whose Freedom?
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Rackspace Brings OpenStack to Datacenters
Rackspace Cloud Private Edition delivers open source OpenStack clouds as a managed service for datacenters. Read more >>
Key Success Factors for Open Source Strategies
Last week at EclipseCon Europe, John Swainson gave a keynote address that reflected on IBM's decision to start Eclipse as an open source project and consortium. Read more >>
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Setting up Ubuntu Server 11.04 for iSCSI storage

There are a multitude of roles for which Ubuntu Server is well suited. In many cases it's possible to task a server with multiple roles. When you initially install Ubuntu Server, you're given a list of options including OpenSSH, DNS, LAMP, Mail, PostgreSQL database, Print, Samba, Tomcat Java and Virtual Machine hostRe. read the full article 
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

NCWIT Trying to Increase Number of Women in Technology Field

Campus Technology (10/25/11) Tim Sohn

The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has partnered with academia and industry to improve the recruitment and retention of women in information technology (IT) and expects an additional 1,000 women to graduate with IT-related degrees next year. The program, called NCWIT Pacesetters, provides a peer group for discussing experiences, research, and results; puts on the annual NCWIT Summit on Women in IT; and offers case studies on educational reform, recruitment, and retention. Other offerings include social science research on workforce participation, education, and innovation; outreach campaigns on IT careers and education for women; and an online inventory of resources. The Pacesetters program has boosted the percentage of women computing graduates at the University of Virginia from 10 percent to 25 percent, and led to twice as many female engineer interns at Google. Meanwhile, the University of California, Santa Cruz says the program helped increase the number of female majors in computer science by 40 percent.

IBM Open-Sources 'Internet of Things' Protocol

Read Write Web (11/02/11) Scott M. Fulton III

IBM is collaborating with Eurotech to donate a complete protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation. The Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol could potentially enable an Internet of things in which digitally empowered devices send messages to one another. In its final draft proposal, IBM notes that MQTT could enable a wide range of machine-to-machine messaging solutions. For example, IBM says the protocol could enable public and private transit systems "to monitor ... critical alerts, adjusting their routes and even notifying commuters and customers of alternative routes, transportation, lodging, and meals. Social networks could subscribe, allowing residents and commuters to interact, adapt, and even provide feedback and status to the city." The draft proposal also contends that current HTTP-based Web services protocols are inadequate and require adaptation in the context of machine-to-machine communication. "Open source messaging components ... will have to work equally well across the constrained networks and embedded platforms that are inherent to [the] physical world of machine-to-machine systems," the draft says. "This will enable a paradigm shift from legacy point-to-point protocols and the limitations of protocols like [simple object access protocol] or HTTP into more loosely coupled yet determinable models."

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Solution Open source pour l' Ecommerce cl'e en main


Plici is an Open Source Ecommerce Plateform and a powerful and extensible solution to manage all your e-commerce website with a single application.
Plici use Smarty, Php, Mysql, Jquery, CKEditor and others. The software architecture is Model–View–Controller and use URL rewriting, it is a full GPL project.

Visit http://www.plici.net/

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

iPhone 4S : les marchés chahutent l'action Apple


iPhone 4S : les marchés  chahutent  l'action Apple Business - Sur un marché très instable, l'action Apple a été malmenée après l'annonce du nouvel iPhone 4S en perdant jusqu'à 5 % en cours de séance pour finir en retrait de 0,56 %.
 Tim Cook  a vécu son baptême du feu. Il se souviendra longtemps de son premier keynote en qualité de CEO d'Apple. D'abord parce que remplacer Steve Jobs est un challenge difficile à relever. Ensuite parce que l'action Apple a été fortement secoué après ses annonces perdant jusqu'à 5 % en cours de séance.
Très attendue, la version 5 de l'iPhone n'a finalement pas été annoncée. C'est la version 4S, hypothèse largement défendue par ailleurs, qui a été dévoilée avec son processeur double cœur A5, son système de reconnaissance vocale et son capteur 8 megapixels.
Est-ce la raison de la nervosité du marché ? "Cela fait 16 mois et tout ce qu'on a, c'est un processeur A5 dans l'iPhone 4 existant", commente Colin Gillis, analyste chez BGC Partners cité par Reuters.
Sous la menace de Samsung 
Les analystes craignent que cette évolution du dernier né de la gamme iPhone soit jugée insuffisante par les utilisateurs pour les pousser à acheter ce nouveau modèle. Et donc de réduire le volume de ventes du smartphone, qui représente 40 % du chiffre d'affaires, pour le dernier trimestre de l'année.Lors du troisième trimestre, clos en juin, Apple avait écoulé 20 millions de terminaux.
Car s'il est leader du marché des smartphones avec 18,4% de parts de marché, selon IHS iSuppli, Apple vit  néanmoins sous la menace de Samsung (17,8%) dont la gamme Galaxy se vend très bien.
La bataille se livre aussi sur les systèmes d'exploitation. En annonçant iOS5, Apple veut rattraper son retard sur Android qui le domine largement sur le marché américain, selon Nielsen, avec 43 % de parts de marché contre 28%.  Le marché français est à cet égard un bon exemple de ce que redoutent les analystes avec un duo Samsung/Android quimène la danse.
Au terme de ce keynote, Apple dispose d'une gamme d'iPhone mise à jour : le 3GSs'installe dans l'entrée de gamme, l'iPhone 4 dans le milieu et le 4 S  dans le haut de gamme.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

NASA Unbolts Open Source Space Applications Challenge

Network World (09/20/11) Michael Cooney

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced an open source-based application competition with the goal of delivering a new generation of software that can address space, weather, and economic issues. NASA will collaborate with other interested space agencies worldwide on an International Space Apps Challenge that will encourage researchers to create, build, and invent new applications that can address world-class issues. "The International Space Apps Challenge is an innovative international collaboration that accelerates the development of solutions focused on making government better and addressing critical issues on our planet, such as (but not limited to) weather impacts on the global economy and depletion of ocean resources," according to NASA. The agency wants a collaborative platform to share early-stage government technology-based innovations, which can receive feedback from citizens and commercial stakeholders. In addition, NASA wants a tool to leverage distributed crowdsourcing analysis by citizens to help process, archive, distribute, and visualize data for space exploration.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Linux Lebanese Users: Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 "Dagba" : 100% free (libre)...

Linux Lebanese Users: Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 "Dagba" : 100% free (libre)...: Afin de célébrer le Software Freedom Day, l'équipe de développement de Trisquel GNU/Linux a publié Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 "Dagba". Trisqu...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Application Development Boosts IT Job Market: Dice Report

eWeek (09/07/11) Nathan Eddy

The number of available technology jobs as of Sept. 1 stood at 82,836, with 50,659 full-time positions, 35,378 contract positions, and 1,565 part-time positions, reports Dice.com. Dice's Alice Hill notes that one of the fastest growing areas of hiring requests involves mobile application development. She says that just 17 percent of technology professionals have published a mobile app, and of this group only 27 percent work on mobile initiatives full time. Although full-time developers prefer to work with the iPhone, more employers are searching for Android developers, according to Hill. In addition, she says tech professionals involved in iPhone development report nine times more income from apps, but Android income should rise along with the growth in app advertising revenue. "For tech talent, taking on a mobile app project is a great way to broaden skills in an area that is primed for more growth," Hill says.

Parallel Programming Skills Crisis Could Stall Server Evolution

Computerworld Australia (09/12/11) Sandra Van Dijk

The lack of parallel programming expertise worldwide will become a major issue for the information technology (IT) industry over the next 10 years, warns a RMIT University report. Advanced parallel programming skills are hard to find among professional programmers because it is taught only as an advanced elective in most computer science curricula, says RMIT professor James Harland. The report warns that without a massive injection in parallel programming talent in the IT sector, new server platforms will stall, especially in areas such as fabric-based computing. The lack of programming skill can lead to frozen states commonly known as a deadly embrace, but techniques to deal with frozen states are only taught briefly in computer science and IT programs, according to Harland. "Hence, the only real way to overcome such obstacles is to spend more time on parallel programming techniques in these courses," he notes. Parallel programming represents a different paradigm of software development in that it introduces the notion of complexity into software development, similar to learning a new programming language, says RMIT's John Lenarcic. "Only a minority of developers have sufficient training to handle parallel programs, and only a fraction have enough experience to do it well," says Gartner analyst Carl Claunch.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Special Report Highlights 'Greatest Hits' of Scientific Supercomputing

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (09/02/11) Dawn Levy

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which is jointly managed by the Argonne National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is developing INCITE in Review, a special report that will highlight the 22 greatest hits of science and engineering accomplishments made by researchers running complex simulations on the U.S. Department of Energy's supercomputers. "Whether it's gaining a better understanding of the universe or engineering solutions for a growing, energy-hungry populace, the investigations enabled by INCITE are making the world a smarter, more sustainable place," says National Center for Computational Science director James J. Hack, who co-wrote the report's introduction. "We are proud to tell the story of INCITE's role to date in advancing the frontiers of human knowledge for the benefit of all." INCITE projects are designed to accelerate breakthroughs in fields in which major advancements would be impossible without supercomputing. Since INCITE was created, researchers have been allotted more than 4.5 billion supercomputer processor hours, with 1.7 billion in just the 2011 calendar year.

As Tech Evolves, Will PCs Be Left Behind?

USA Today (09/06/11) Jon Swartz

The rapid shift from personal computers (PCs) to mobile devices and cloud-based computing has restructured the high-tech industry. Technology has exhausted the limits of the PC as a platform and the future will center on mobile devices, predicts Google chairman Eric Schmidt. "The PC device has evolved in terms of size, shape, use, and ubiquity," says former IBM executive Pat Richards. The younger generation, especially, is abandoning desktop computers and laptops for smartphones and iPads. The switch to mobile devices is apparent in the latest sales trends, as sales of smartphones will rise 56 percent to 467.7 million this year, according to Gartner, while tablet sales will grow nearly four times to 69.8 million this year. However, some experts believe the PC is not dying and instead is simply changing its size and shape, as handheld devices become the new must-have consumer product. In the future, consumers will get information from whatever device best suits the data, says VMWare CEO Paul Maritz. He says a person's data "will determine what devices look like, rather than the other way around, because it will outlive any particular piece of hardware where it may reside."

Hacking Targets Multiply

Wall Street Journal (09/09/11) Jennifer Valentino-DeVries 

U.S. government officials and security researchers warn that cyberattacks are a growing threat for all types of devices as they become linked to the Internet or cell phone networks. "They aren't just in automotive systems but in security systems, industrial control systems, medical devices," says iSec Partners' Don Bailey. He and iSec colleague Mathew Solnik recently demonstrated that they could unlock and start a car by sending text messages to the vehicle's alarm system, and the implication is that this same method could be used to interfere with businesses or critical services. The researchers point out that devices connected to a cellular network have several vulnerabilities, including chips that may not be able to manage complex security measures, and an inability to authenticate the network they receive messages from. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with technology manufacturers and users to understand the dangers, and a DHS official notes that protecting the devices is especially challenging because they cannot easily be patched on a routine basis. Bailey says that better microcontrollers could mitigate some hacking threats, while devices also should be required to authenticate the sources of messages and their networks.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Libre Software Lebanon

Wiki of the Free Libre Open Source Software Lebanese Movement : visit libresoftware.cofares.net

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Flash Memory That'll Keep on Shrinking

Technology Review (09/02/11) Katherine Bourzac

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Samsung have developed a type of flash memory that uses graphene and silicon to store information. The researchers say that the use of graphene could extend flash's viability far into the future and could lead to portable electronics that can store much more data than today's devices. "We're using graphene to help extend the capabilities of the conventional technology," says IBM Watson Research Center researcher Augustin Hong, who worked on the technology while at UCLA. The graphene flash memory prototypes use less power than conventional flash memory and they can store data more stably over time, even when miniaturized, according to the researchers. Graphene-based flash memory cells perform better due to the material's chemical structure and electrical properties, says UCLA professor Kang Wang, who led the research. Graphene also can hold much more charge than silicon without leaking, which is a common problem with conventional flash systems as the devices get smaller. Although the graphene-based devices have not been reduced to the size of some silicon-based devices, there are no known properties of graphene that would cause the performance to falter as the devices get smaller.
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